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>> Brian: GOOD EVENING.
SOMETHING VERY RARE IN THE SKIES
OVER MONTREAL TODAY.
SOMETHING YOU USUALLY SEE IN
TROPICAL CLIMATES.
>> Mutsumi: IT LOOKED LIKE A
FUNNEL CLOUD.
IT WAS ACTUALLY A WATER SPOUT
THAT FORMED OVER THE St.
LAWRENCE RIVER.
ROB LURIE JOINS US NOW.
SO THIS IS ACTUALLY KIND OF
TORNADO?
>> IT'S A MINI TORNADO THAT FORM
OVER WATER BUT THIS IS THE TYPE
OF THING YOU'LL USUALLY SEE OFF
THE FLORIDA KEYS.
WHEN THEY HAVE HAPPENED IN THE
PAST IN QUEBEC IT'S BEEN IN THE
SAGUENAY REGION.
NO ONE CAN RECALL THE LAST TIME
THEY SAW ONE IN MONTREAL BUT IT
TOUCHED DOWN BETWEEN FIRST OF
ALL AND LONGUEUIL AROUND 1
O'CLOCK.
WATER SPOUTS ARE CAUSED BY
PRETTY SPECIFIC CONDITIONS.
USUALLY A WARM BODY OF WATER,
AROUND 80°, WHICH THE St.
LAWRENCE WAS NOT AT TODAY,
UNSTABLE AIR, MEANING IT'S ABOUT
TO RAIN, AND GROUND WINDS
GENERATING A TWIST.
MARTIN BELANGER IS A
METEOROLOGIST...
>> IN MONTREAL WE DIDN'T HAVE
ANY WATER SPOUTS IN THE PAST, WE
DID IN 2003 IN LAVAL BUT
OTHERWISE WE GET ONLY FIVE OR
SIX TORNADOES A YEAR IN QUEBEC.
>> Mutsumi: ROB, THIS ONE DIDN'T
CAUSE ANY DAMAGE, BUT CAN THEY?
>> THEY CAN, ESPECIALLY WHEN
THEY HAPPEN AROUND MARINAS OR
CLOSER TO THE SHORE WHERE THERE
ARE A LOT OF TREES.
THEY'VE BEEN KNOWN TO FALL FREES
AND DAMAGE DOCKS AND BOATS BUT
THIS ONE HAPPENED IN THE WATER
WITH NOTHING AROUND IT.